提示：1）When is the festival?

2）What do people eat and do on that day?

3）What do you think of the festival and why?

要求：1）文中不得出现真实姓名和学校名;

2）词数100词左右，开头已给出,不计人总词数。

Hi! Tom,

I'm glad to hear that you are interested in traditional Chinese festivals.

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Yours,

Li Hua

A young man entered the last interview of a company. The boss found that the young man's school grades were very good.

"Did you get any scholarships(奖学金) in school?" the boss asked. "No," the young man answered. "Did your father pay for your school fees (学费)?"the boss asked. "My father passed away when I was one year old, so my mother paid for my school fees," the young man answered.

"Where did your mother work?" the boss asked. "My mother cleaned clothes," the young man said. The boss looked at the young man's hands. He had a pair of smooth and perfect hands.

"Have you ever helped your mother wash the clothes before?" the boss asked. "Never," the young man answered. "I have a request," the boss said. "When you go back home today, go and clean your mother's hands, and then see me tomorrow morning.

The young man felt that his chance of getting the job was high. When he went back. He happily asked his mother to let him clean her hands. His mother felt strange, happy but with mixed feelings. She showed her hands to the kid. The young man cleaned his mother's hands slowly. His tears fell as he did that. It was the first time he had noticed his mother's hands were so wrinkled, he realized it was this pair of hands that helped him pay the fees.

The next morning, the young man went to the boss. "I cleaned my mother's hands, and I now that without my mother, I would not be the person I am today, "he said.

"This is what I am looking for in my manager," the boss said. "I want a person who can pectate(感激)the help of others lo get things done. You get the job!"

Many people consider Albert Einstein(1879一1955) a genius (天才). This story about him shows that he is also a1scientist.

Einstein often2invitations to give speeches at different3. On these trips, his driver Hans often said to him, "It's a4to drive a genius like you, Dr. Einstein."

One evening, on their way to a university, Einstein said, "I'm so tired. I want to5giving the speech tonight, Hans, but I can't let my audience(观众) down.

"I know what to do," said Hans. "I can give the speech for you. You can6me. I've listened to your speech so many times7I've learned it by heart. No one knows you at this university, so they won't8."

So, they exchanged IDs. At the university, Hans was guided to the9of the hall. Einstein took a seat, listened to Hans give his speech without difficulty and10the applause (鼓掌) at the end.

However, before Hans left, a man shouted, "I'd like to ask you a question." He then asked a very11question and Hans had no idea what he was talking about.

Einstein's face turned white. "Oh, no!" he thought. "Now we're in12."

But Hans just laughed and said, "That's an easy question. Even my13can answer it. Hans, please…"

Einstein stood up and answered the question14They left the university, with Einstein15.A little while later, Hans offered to drive. "No," laughed Einstein. "It's a pleasure to drive a genius like you, Hans."

The invention of barcodes (条形码) comes from a very simple idea. We only need to give each product a specific(具体的) number and print it. We could simply print the number itself. But this can cause problems. For example, an unclearly printed" seven" could look like a" one" to a computer. And "nine "looks similar to "six "if you turn it upside down. We need a better way of printing numbers so that they can be read correctly at high speeds. That's the problem barcodes solve.

Each number in a barcode is shown by seven same stripes(条). For example, the number "one" is shown in turn by two white stripes, two black stripes, two white stripes, and one black stripe.

A barcode includes different parts and each one provides a specific meaning. For example, 690-692 is the barcode for China. The next part tells you who produced the product. The final part is about the product itself. This is how barcodes work.
 

One day, a farmer was walking along a road with his son Thomas. The father said." Look! There is a horseshoe. Pick it and put it in your bag." Thomas said. "It isn't worth(值得) the trouble." His father said but picked it up himself.

When they got to a nearby town, they had a rest. There the father the horseshoe and with some money he bought some cherries(樱桃). The father and the son continued way. The sun was up in the sky. And there wasn't a house even a tree, so they could not have a rest. Thomas felt too thirsty to walk on. At this time, his father dropped a cherry on the ground and Thomas picked it up and ate it. After a while, his father dropped another cherry and once again his son lost time in picking it up and it in his mouth. And so they went on. The old farmer dropped the cherries and the son picked them up.

When Thomas all the cherries. his father said to him, "My dear son, you had bent(弯曲) down earlier to pick up that horseshoe, it would not have been necessary for you to bend so many for the cherries. Always remember the lesson that anyone who does not worry about the little things will find that he cannot do the great things. "